Two of the most powerful threads in American history are the immigrant experience and America at war and the impact that those wars have had on the nation and it's people
The impact of WWII, the Japanese American experience and the relationship with Japan that evolved out of the ashes of that war, are the penultimate manifestation of that uniquely American story.  
Pamela Rotner Sakamoto has, in her new book Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds captured its true essence.
My conversation with Pamela Rotner Sakamoto:

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